What is EPEL Repository and How To Enable For RedHat and CentOS

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux a.k.a EPEL is open source and free community supported project by Fedora. EPEL provides high quality uptodate packages for its upstream distributions like RedHat, CentOS and Scientific Linux. EPEL is mainly provides yum and dnf based rpm packages.

Add EPEL Repository To CentOS and RedHat

First we need to add repository information to our system. As we know CentOS and RHEL are the same distributions so all commands will be the same.